The Berlin-Baghdad express : the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power, 1898-1918, Sean McMeekin

The Resource The Berlin-Baghdad express : the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power, 1898-1918, Sean McMeekin

The Berlin-Baghdad express : the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power, 1898-1918, Sean McMeekin

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The Kaiser, the baron and the dragoman -- Berlin to Baghdad -- Young Turks and old caliphs -- A gift from Mars: German holy war fever -- The war for the Porte -- The first global jihad: death to infidels everywhere! (unless they be Germans, Austrians, Hungarians, Americans or - possibly - Italians) -- Parting the Red Sea -- Au Austrian in Arabia -- Showdown at the Suez Canal -- Gallipoli: from disaster to triumph -- The blood of the prophet -- The Shia stratagem -- To the gate of India -- Trouble on the Baghdad railway -- The reluctant Mahdi -- Iranian implosion -- Betrayal in Mecca -- The holy war devours its children -- Consolation prize? the race for Baku -- Epilogue: The strange death of German Zionism and the Nazi-Muslim connection

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000045826534

Dimensions

24 cm.

Extent

xv, 460 p., [16] p. of plates

Isbn

9781846143236

Isbn Type

(hbk.)

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ill., ports., maps

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The Berlin-Baghdad express : the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power, 1898-1918, Sean McMeekin

The Kaiser, the baron and the dragoman -- Berlin to Baghdad -- Young Turks and old caliphs -- A gift from Mars: German holy war fever -- The war for the Porte -- The first global jihad: death to infidels everywhere! (unless they be Germans, Austrians, Hungarians, Americans or - possibly - Italians) -- Parting the Red Sea -- Au Austrian in Arabia -- Showdown at the Suez Canal -- Gallipoli: from disaster to triumph -- The blood of the prophet -- The Shia stratagem -- To the gate of India -- Trouble on the Baghdad railway -- The reluctant Mahdi -- Iranian implosion -- Betrayal in Mecca -- The holy war devours its children -- Consolation prize? the race for Baku -- Epilogue: The strange death of German Zionism and the Nazi-Muslim connection